Biology major: Berkeley, UCLA or UCSD

knutcracka
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:16:23 +0000

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I don’t see how living with family would “make UCSD seem socially dead”. I’m a pretty sociable person in real life (though that you may never know).

I do understand they have more students getting admitted to med schools. But think again, it’s not the NAME that helps you get in. It’s the GPA + MCATs.

Obviously, students in UCLA and Berkeley have to be top students to have been admitted to UCLA and Berk. Therefore, it’s natural to see more students getting into med schools from those UCs.

UCSD doesn’t have that poor of a percentage either. It has around 40+%
UCLA has 50+%
Berk has 60+%

I think it all comes down to the individual working hard to get those grades + ECCs + doing well on MCATs, DATs, PCATs or GREs.